Who are we?

Cohere is focused on building and deploying large language model (LLM) AI into enterprises in a safe and responsible way that drives human productivity, and creates magical new ways to interact with technology and real business value. We’re a team of highly motivated and experienced engineers, innovators, and disruptors looking to change the face of technology.

Our goals are ambitious, but also concrete and practical. Cohere wants to fundamentally change how businesses operate, making everyone more productive and able to focus on doing better what they do best. Every day, our team breaks new ground, as we build transformational AI technology and products for enterprise and developers to harness the power of LLMs.

Cohere was founded by three global leaders in AI development, including our CEO, Aidan Gomez, who co-created the Transformer, which makes LLMs possible. Collectively, we're driven by the belief that our technology has the potential to revolutionize the way enterprises, their employees, and customers engage with technology through language.

Cohere’s broader research team is world-renowned, having contributed to the development of sentence transformers for semantic search, dynamic adversarial data collection and red teaming, and retrieval augmented generation, often referred to as “RAG,” among other technological breakthroughs.

We have been deliberate in assembling a team of operational leaders with industry-leading experience, with backgrounds working at the most sophisticated, demanding, and respected enterprises in the world. Cohere’s operational leaders have built, scaled, and led multi-billion product lines and businesses at Google, Apple, Rakuten, YouTube, AWS, and Cisco.

The Cohere team is a collective from all walks of life, from people who left college to start businesses, to some of the most experienced people from globally renowned companies. We believe a diverse team is the key to a safer, more responsible technology, and that different experiences and backgrounds enable us to tackle problems from all angles and avoid blindspots.

There’s no better time to play a role in defining the future of AI, and its impact on the world.

Why this role?

Cohere is in a unique and exciting position to grow our technical team globally! We are expanding our Talent Team and are looking for a creative, high-performing technical talent partner who is eager to take on a new challenge as we are in the early stages of building the Talent Acquisition function. In this role, you will master a new domain of recruiting, recruit world-class technical talent, and influence the scaling of a high-growth Canadian tech company. If you consider yourself resilient, collaborative, influential, and a lifelong learner, we’d love to hear from you!

Please Note: We are ideally looking for candidates based in San Francisco, CA for this role.

As a Senior Talent Partner for Cohere, you will:

Own the full lifecycle recruitment process, attracting and recruiting top talent for multiple roles and business areas across Cohere
Make sure our candidates have a world-class recruiting experience with us
Work with hiring managers and leaders to create effective recruiting strategies
Keep us up-to-date with talent market and industry insights so we can make informed decisions
Keep track of recruiting funnels in Lever, our ATS, and update the progress regularly
Find creative ways to proactively source and recruit candidates to optimize the top of the funnel
Build relationships with diverse tech and talent communities
Bring in other exciting talent projects and take ownership of them!
Attend and represent our Talent Acquisition team at industry conferences as well as plan and execute curated networking events

You may be a good fit if:

You have 5+ years of technical, full-cycle recruiting experience scaling high-growth teams (experience at startups is a plus).
You have experience sourcing and recruiting for roles across the stack, including machine learning engineers, researchers, and software engineers.
You are a creative problem solver and thrive under pressure. We are a fast-growing startup and with that comes ambiguity and change.
You are a natural influencer and enjoy working cross-functionally.
You love data and take a data-driven approach to your recruiting.
You are passionate about diversity, community, and ensuring an equitable recruiting process.
You are naturally curious, with a keen interest in the AI industry, specifically around NLP, LLMs, and cutting-edge research in this space.

If some of the above doesn’t line up perfectly with your experience, we still encourage you to apply! If you consider yourself a thoughtful worker, a lifelong learner, and a kind and playful team member, Cohere is the place for you.

We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all. We welcome applicants of all kinds and are committed to providing an equal opportunity process. Cohere provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Our Perks:

🤝 An open and inclusive culture and work environment

🧑‍💻 Work closely with a team on the cutting edge of AI research

🍽 Weekly lunch stipend, in-office lunches & snacks

🦷 Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget to take care of your mental health

🐣 100% Parental Leave top-up for 6 months for employees based in Canada, the US, and the UK

🎨 Personal enrichment benefits towards arts and culture, fitness and well-being, quality time, and workspace improvement

🏙 Remote-flexible, offices in Toronto, Palo Alto, San-Francisco and London and co-working stipend

✈️ 6 weeks of vacation

Note: This post is co-authored by both Cohere humans and Cohere technology.

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[Contract] Senior Technical Talent Partner at Cohere

As a Senior Talent Partner for Cohere, you will:

You may be a good fit if: